It is not necessary to dwell on every incident of this terrible journey.
Eyre's descriptions, animated by remembrances of past sufferings, possess a graphic vigour which cannot be successfully emulated.

Sometimes it was found necessary to divide the party, so wretched was the country, and so difficult was it to obtain sufficient water in even the most limited supply for man and beast.

Once Eyre was alone for six days, with only three quarts of water, some of which evaporated, and more was spilt.

But his indomitable determination to accomplish the journey on which he had resolved never failed.

He knew that at least 600 miles of desert country lay between him and the nearest settlement of Western Australia; but even that prospect, the certain privations, the probable miserable death, did not daunt him in the journey.